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A federal judge in Atlanta on Tuesday blocked a Department of Justice subpoena seeking the names of election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, from the 2020 election. President Donald Trump has falsely claimed for years that he actually won Georgia's 2020 presidential election a

Unannounced Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs appear in Seasonic PSU calculator — unreleased graphics cards shown with 10-17% higher TGP over original models More memory, more performance, more power. Maybe. The GeForce RTX 50-series desktop graphics lineup has remained unchanged for just

Egypt fume at 'injustice' and make Messi favouritism claims after exit - Published With 12 minutes of normal time remaining, Egypt stood on the cusp of their greatest ever World Cup result. The Pharaohs led Argentina, the reigning world champions, 2-0 in Atlanta Stadium. A quarte

The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday revoked its authorization of Iranian oil sales after a series of attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz this week. "Iran will only reap benefits if they exhibit good behavior," a U.S. official told CNBC, speaking on condition of anonymi

Off the Wire Press Releases Regional partnership establishes innovation platform to strengthen agriculture security and rural reinvestment July 7, 2026 — F3 Innovate (F3i), Fresno State and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego have announced the launch of the F3i Su

The Nasdaq-100 is up about 18% in 2026, but traders on prediction market platform Kalshi don't think the index will move much higher in the second half of 2026. Speculators place about 50-50 odds that the tech-heavy index will close 2026 above 30,000, a level it first crossed in

Off the Wire Press Releases First-of-its-kind initiative will integrate quantum sensing, networking and computing into a single operational system to strengthen American economic competitiveness and national security July 7, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation today annou

Off the Wire Press Releases TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 7, 2026 — GIGABYTE is demonstrating how AI TOP ATOM four-node clustering scales local AI computing for increasingly complex workloads. As AI models, scientific simulations, and enterprise applications continue to grow in size and c

Florida's "anti-woke" law restricting how professors can teach about race and gender at public colleges and universities violates the First Amendment, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. It's a major blow to one of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' signature culture war po

US manufacturers in many Rust Belt cities and towns are paying significantly higher electricity costs as growing energy demand from data centers strains the largest power grid operator in the United States. The resulting squeeze on profit margins for steelmakers and brick factori

Pressure is building on Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner to drop out of the election after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her — a stunning fall for a once-ascendant candidate whose bid has been rocked by personal scandals for months as Democrats try to

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models - AI and ML South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon

Investors dumped semiconductor stocks on Tuesday after results from Samsung Electronics failed to meet Wall Street's lofty artificial intelligence demand expectations. Shares dropped 8% even after the South Korean electronics company's quarterly profit surpassed both Nvidia and A

The threat level to ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz has increased to "severe" after several Iranian attacks on tankers, a naval coalition led by the U.S. warned merchant vessels Tuesday. The Joint Maritime Information Center cautioned mariners that "deliberate hostile action"

In some parts of the US, up to 30 percent of people may carry the antibody behind a red meat allergy spurred by tick bites, far exceeding the estimated number of people who actually have the allergy, according a study published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The findin

Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it’s coming soon to Facebook and Messenger, according to an announcement

Tears of relief? Messi adds another incredible chapter to World Cup career - Published Lionel Messi stood in the centre of Atlanta Stadium in floods of tears, sobbing on the shoulders of his team-mates, after adding another remarkable World Cup victory to the story of his incredi

Rivian Automotive stock plunged 18% Tuesday after the electric vehicle maker announced a public offering of 75 million shares of its Class A common stock. Tuesday's stock move was its worst since 2024 and its fifth worst day on record. The capital raise occurred during extended h

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The Supreme Court yesterday decided not to intervene in challenges to a Texas app store law, allowing the state to enforce age-verification rules while a lawsuit continues. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Texas App Store Accountability Act in December

On Monday, Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang published a provocative new theory, posted under the title “Everyone is wrong about open source AI in the enterprise.” The post grapples with one of the most interesting contradictions of today’s AI economy: More mature AI deployments are switch

As AI costs continue to rise, companies are looking for ways to cut back. The most recent example is Microsoft, which has reportedly begun to deploy a cost-savings strategy by relying less on software from OpenAI and Anthropic and instead deploying its own in-house models. Indeed

Questions surrounding Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., mount as the 84-year-old lawmaker remains hospitalized for more than three weeks with scant details disclosed about his health status. McConnell, the former longtime Senate majority leader who declined to seek an eighth term foll

Is tech's biggest sleeping giant about to wake up? Shares of Nvidia fought into the green despite a 5% sell-off in chip stocks tracked by the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH), a notable outperformance a day after a research report claiming the AI leader was at least a year behind o

In announcing plans for 3,200 layoffs across the Xbox division yesterday, CEO Asha Sharma focused on discussing cuts to the Xbox platform team and redundant layers of middle management. Now, though, word is filtering out about significant staffing cuts at remaining Microsoft-owne

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Superb England inflict record T20 defeat on India - Published Third T20 international, Trent Bridge England 201-7 (20 overs): Salt 70 (44), Curran 41* (24), Buttler 36 (21); Prince 2-30 India 76 (11.4 overs): Tongue 4-28, Archer 3-29 England won by 125 runs, lead five-match serie

Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, as well as white and gray transparent backgrounds—were incorrectly flagged a

Off the Wire Press Releases ARMONK, N.Y., July 7, 2026 — IBM today announces new IBM z17 and IBM LinuxONE 5 configurations, marking the first time IBM is offering rack mount alongside single frame systems across its full Z and LinuxONE portfolio. The expanded IBM z17 and LinuxONE

Google has announced its next Made By Google event, taking place on August 12 in New York City. Google’s invite doesn’t name names, but the imagery clearly shows a new Pixel phone that looks a whole lot like last year’s phone. Some new rumors, however, suggest the updated phones

Episode details Available for over a year Today Nigel Farage resigns as an MP, triggering a by-election in Clacton which he says he plans to stand in. He is currently facing an ongoing parliamentary standards investigation into whether he should have declared a £5 million gift he